Ophelia Brown’s Blossom Capital is a superior performer. The London-based venture capital firm’s $85 million first fund is ranked in the top 5% of funds raised in the US and Europe in the past year, according to Cambridge Associates and Prequin. A second $185 million fund took just three months to raise.
Following the news of Jeff Bezos’ phone hacking via WhatsApp, questions about the messaging app’s safety are being asked by its 300 million daily active users.
The lifespan of an S&P 500 company is rapidly declining. The average age of an S&P 500 company is under 20 years, down from 70 years in the 1950s, according to Credit Suisse[1]. In a recent Fortune 500 review[2], almost 50% of companies a decade later were gone. With these two market forces in play, […]
Constant industry disruptions, higher customer expectations, and newly emerging trends leave organisations no choice but to move more quickly, cut costs, and generate more and more innovative ideas. This concerns not only energetic founders inspired by unicorn start-up stories and leadership of smaller organisations looking for growth but also executives of long-time industry leaders who […]
RADA Business, the commercial arm of world-renowned drama school, is helping business leaders improve their confidence with the ability to improvise successfully in pressurised situations.
It’s safe to say the past decade hasn’t been a smooth ride for SMEs. During the first half of the 2010s, the nation was still busy recovering from the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, while the last few years have been dominated by Brexit and the economic uncertainty it has brought with it.
Anyone involved in business is facing an extraordinary challenge. For decades, ‘working in business’ has been a perfectly respectable career. It says wealth creator, driver of economic prosperity that benefits all. But lately this has changed.
We’ve reached a new year and a new decade, and we’re setting new goals and new targets for 2020, most of which will be base don the evolving business and technology landscape we already began to face in 2019.
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